Transparent Proxy for IPv6 traffic under Linux

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Published on 2009-03-09T06:04:06Z Indexed on 2010/04/08 2:53 UTC
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When maintaining networks, it is often an expedient thing to do to run a transparent proxy. By transparent proxy I mean a proxy that 'hijacks' outgoing connections and runs them through a local service. Specifically I run a linux firewall with squid configured so that all tcp/ip connections fowarded on port 80 are proxied by squid.

This is achived using the iptables 'nat' table, using IPv4.

But iptables for IPv6 does not have a 'nat' table, so I cannot use the same implementation. What is a technique I can use to transparently proxy traffic for IPv6 connections?

(this question has still not been answered adequately yet, a year on)

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